The Spider-orchid

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The Spider Orchid. My curiosity was up Leah when you posted about this one. This was a fun and edgy read. Great characters, I felt as if I were taken by the hand and led into Dorothy‘s building, where most of the drama unfolds. I loved how the reason for the title is revealed.
I may have to dive straight into another Fremlin…in fact I just have - An Appointment With Yesterday !

LeahBergen

rockpools How fun - I love it when you just have to keep reading an author! 1y

LeahBergen Great review and I‘m glad you liked it, too! I‘m now off to read about the next title you just started. 😆 1y

TrishB Great finding new authors! 1y

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batsy Nice review! I'm glad Fremlin is not just a one-hit wonder 😁 1y

Cathythoughts @LeahBergen she‘s so readable 👍🏻♥️ 1y

Cathythoughts @rockpools It is fun ! It‘s great Rachel 👍🏻 1y

Cathythoughts @TrishB I‘ve read a good few of hers now and she‘s never let me down 👍🏻 1y

Cathythoughts @batsy Definitely not a one hit wonder. I can‘t imagine she‘s written anything but good ones 👍🏻😁 1y

Tamra Must get to her! 😃 1y

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LeahBergen

The Spider-orchid | Celia Fremlin

They sure don‘t ‘cover blurb‘ like they used to, do they? 😆

In this 1977 novel, Adrian finds himself a bit put out when his mistress of four years moves in after her husband agrees to a divorce. Rita seems to really dislike his 13-year-old daughter … and some sort of murder is being hinted at (but of whom?). I‘m continually surprised that this vintage author isn‘t more well known.

Look, @Cathythoughts ! I‘m reading another Celia Fremlin. 👏

Tamra I‘ve not encountered her before. Where should I start? 1y

LeahBergen @Tamra The first one that I read and that got me hooked was

The Hours Before Dawn

Cathythoughts So you are !! And I love that colour and the title 😁.. I‘ll just have to get it , won‘t I 👍🏻❤️ 1y

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Cathythoughts @Tamra I think Hours Before Dawn was one of my first ones I read too. She‘s nice and creepy 😉 it was @EverydayImReading who introduced me to her. 1y

TrishB I think I have The Hours Before Dawn on the piles! 1y

LeahBergen @Cathythoughts I think you‘ll like this one, too! She reminds me of early Ruth Rendell a little bit. 1y

LeahBergen @TrishB Let me know what you think when you get to it! 😀 1y

batsy @Tamra I just read The Hours Before Dawn recently and really enjoyed it! That's the only one I've read by Fremlin and want to read more 🙂 1y

Leftcoastzen She was never on my radar at all . That‘s how it is sometimes.makes me wonder who her U.S.publisher was back in the day . 1y

jlhammar Oh my gosh, that cover blurb is just too good! Definitely want to give Fremlin a try sometime. 1y

erzascarletbookgasm Oh I have not heard of this title. I‘ve only read The Hours Before Dawn and I‘ll add this to the others I have stacked as want to read. 1y

LeahBergen @batsy That was my first one, too. 👍 1y

LeahBergen @Leftcoastzen Good question! 🤔 1y

LeahBergen @jlhammar Isn‘t it great? 😆 1y

LeahBergen @erzascarletbookgasm I‘ve stacked a bunch of her other books, too. 👍 1y

Leftcoastzen I was looking on Abe , saw a Lippincott ( old) Avon paperbacks . 1y

LeahBergen @Leftcoastzen Oh, interesting! I noticed a few old luridly covered paperbacks when I was searching, too. 1y

Tamra @LeahBergen @cathythoughts stacked! 😘 1y

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